Because it doesn't hurt anyone to say that Amare Stoudemire's face is made from an artificial substance mined on the fourth moon of Saturn. In fact, if it brings joy or a smile to one person, it was worth it. lol

It hurts the integrity of the site. Every person who posts that sort of crap harms the site. If you felt it was harmless I am sure you would not mind linking your actions to this site of yours through your real name.

Perhaps someday your site will be hacked and you may have a different perspective.

I'll try not to go on & on, but it sure seems like the only person laughing is ....you. Wikipedia is what it is, nothing more nor less. However, the hardcore 'pedians seem to really want to make it legit, and your VERY poor attempts at humor seem to fly in it's face.

Mural, much better metaphor, the mural is however containable, vandals
will be caught and removed, and even then you are not claiming that the
information on your wall is credible.

Have you seen the Colbert Report?

Disinformation bits wouldn't fit into Colbert's comedy, what he said about
Wikipedia is that things are made true if enough people agree to them
being true (what he refers to as "Wikiality), and to prove environmentalists
wrong he said people should edit Wikipedia to say that Elephant
population has tripled in Africa in the past six months (or something like
that).

Pointing out preexisting mistakes doesn't fit into his persona, at all and I
don't think it would be as funny as the way he already did it.

That's the thing - there are a lot of non-extreme bits of misinformation one could put in there.

As an example, since it is an open site, are you cool with someone putting your contact information there? Rumors about you? Insults or silliness? How about your family? Your family business (you know, assuming there is one for sake of example)? Your significant other?

I think as long as the misinformation is removed lots of people are okay with the "joke" of putting garbage on the site. I expect people would feel differently if it struck closer to home.

Adding nonsense and the activities you described are very different and
incomparable, no point comparing the two.

The nonsense is bad maybe, misinformation, etc... The personal
information and such is far worse, and probably illegal, they are two
completely different things.

I'm against Wikipedia on every principle, I want the website shut down, or
at least horribly discredited, of course I'd hate if someone put my contact
information up there, though the fact that that could happen is low on my
list of reasons to hate it, because it could happen but probably won't, my
problem with it is that it's mostly useless, plain and simple.

I've actually never heard of it happening (on Wikipedia that is, on
Uncyclopedia it was happening, but they cracked down on it).

I still see a difference between personal attacks and blithering nonsense.
Both are vandalism, but with different intent, the blithering nonsense has
many purposes, feeble attempt to prove the unreliability of Wikipedia,
shits and giggles, etc...

Personal attacks usually have one purpose, to mislead people and to just
in general attack someone, personally.

As the technology progresses, it will be easier to minimize the trolls, regardless of their 'humorous!' intent.

I find the practice of deliberate sabotage 'to deliberately discredit' as appealing (sarcasm off, read as 'appaling') as those who attempt to sneak mock-bombs and other similar devices onto aircraft 'just to show that new security measures have holes'.

On a webboard I run, we have had several former members (kicked off for trolling, violating TOS, etc) who try to rejoin under different aliases and different IP addresses. Why would someone expend such effort when it has been made explicitly clear that you aren't welcome? What efforts are humorous to one person is a royal pain in the ass to someone else that has to correct it. And the sad thing is that the people 'who don't care', 'lololz itz all f0r funz' would be the first to whine if it were to happen to them.

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